2026 Damianos Gavalas: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	34	12004	11655	95	94	218	6617

Overview

Damianos Gavalas is affiliated with the University of the Aegean in Greece and works primarily in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, and Automotive Engineering.

Their main research topics cover diverse technological and social aspects, with a focus on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Augmented Reality Applications, Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Media Influence and Health, Sharing Economy and Platforms, and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods.

Gavalas has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with recent papers addressing a range of subjects related to virtual environments, augmented reality, and smart systems. Notable works include:

"Avatars as storytellers: affective narratives in virtual museums" (2020) published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
"Virtual reality as a communication medium: a comparative study of forced compliance in virtual reality versus physical world" (2021) published in Virtual Reality
"Enhancing shopping experiences in smart retailing" (2021) published in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
"Are you talking to me? An Audio Augmented Reality conversational guide for cultural heritage" (2023) published in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
"Optimizing Relocation Cost in Free-Floating Car-Sharing Systems" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Frequent coauthors working with Gavalas include Vlasios Kasapakis, Elena Dzardanova, Charalampos Konstantopoulos, Grammati Pantziou, and Spyros Vosinakis. Collaboration with these researchers reflects interdisciplinary work across human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and transportation systems.

Their research contributions have been published predominantly in venues such as Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, Sensors, Applied Soft Computing, and INTED proceedings. This indicates a focus on journals and conferences specializing in ubiquitous computing, virtual environments, sensor technology, and applied computational methods.

Best Publications

A survey on jamming attacks and countermeasures in WSNs

A. Mpitziopoulos;D. Gavalas;C. Konstantopoulos;G. Pantziou

647
Citations
Review: Mobile recommender systems in tourism

Damianos Gavalas;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Konstantinos Mastakas;Grammati Pantziou

579
Citations
A survey on algorithmic approaches for solving tourist trip design problems

Damianos Gavalas;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Konstantinos Mastakas;Grammati Pantziou

376
Citations
An innovative mobile electronic tourist guide application

Michael Kenteris;Damianos Gavalas;Daphne Economou

333
Citations
A web-based pervasive recommendation system for mobile tourist guides

Damianos Gavalas;Michael Kenteris

298
Citations
Development Platforms for Mobile Applications: Status and Trends

Damianos Gavalas;D Economou

282
Citations
A Rendezvous-Based Approach Enabling Energy-Efficient Sensory Data Collection with Mobile Sinks

C. Konstantopoulos;G. Pantziou;D. Gavalas;A. Mpitziopoulos

228
Citations
Electronic mobile guides: a survey

Michael Kenteris;Damianos Gavalas;Daphne Economou

177
Citations
Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Basilis Mamalis;Damianos Gavalas;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Grammati Pantziou

173
Citations
Advanced network monitoring applications based on mobile/intelligent agent technology

D. Gavalas;D. Greenwood;M. Ghanbari;M. O'Mahony

163
Citations
Effective Determination of Mobile Agent Itineraries for Data Aggregation on Sensor Networks

Charalampos Konstantopoulos;A Mpitziopoulos;D Gavalas;G Pantziou

142
Citations
The eCOMPASS multimodal tourist tour planner

Damianos Gavalas;Vlasios Kasapakis;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Grammati Pantziou

140
Citations
Heuristics for the time dependent team orienteering problem

Damianos Gavalas;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Konstantinos Mastakas;Grammati Pantziou

115
Citations
A mobile agent platform for distributed network and systems management

Damianos Gavalas;George E. Tsekouras;Christos Anagnostopoulos

104
Citations
Clustering in mobile ad hoc networks through neighborhood stability-based mobility prediction

Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Damianos Gavalas;Grammati Pantziou

102
Citations
Pervasive gaming: Status, trends and design principles

Vlasios Kasapakis;Damianos Gavalas

99
Citations
Scenic route planning for tourists

Damianos Gavalas;Vlasios Kasapakis;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Grammati Pantziou

79
Citations
Web application for recommending personalised mobile tourist routes

Damianos Gavalas;Michael Kenteris;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Grammati E. Pantziou

77
Citations
Incentivized vehicle relocation in vehicle sharing systems

Alexandros Angelopoulos;Alexandros Angelopoulos;Damianos Gavalas;Damianos Gavalas;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Charalampos Konstantopoulos;Damianos Kypriadis;Damianos Kypriadis

76
Citations
An infrastructure for distributed and dynamic network management based on mobile agent technology

D. Gavalas;D. Greenwood;M. Ghanbari;M. O'Mahony

74
Citations
An approach for near-optimal distributed data fusion in wireless sensor networks

Damianos Gavalas;Aristides Mpitziopoulos;Grammati Pantziou;Charalampos Konstantopoulos

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammed Ghanbari University of Essex

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Sapienza University of Rome

Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna

Bin Guo Northwestern Polytechnical University

Dorothea Wagner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Jiannong Cao Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Francesco Ricci Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Zhiwen Yu Northwestern Polytechnical University

Valérie Issarny French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Periklis Chatzimisios International Hellenic University

External Links

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